"If digital media was...subject to a DRM scheme that allowed full legitimate usage..."
It isn't, and it isn't going to be.
I want to be able to do everything with DRM protected content that I can do with a CD-ROM today: listen to it, copy it to my device, lend it to a friend, sell it on eBay when I get tired of it, donate it to a public library, and leave it to my children in my will.
Until DRM does all of that, I want no part of it. I've never bought DRM protected media, and I don't plan to. [I do buy CD's and non-DRM tracks online.]
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"If digital media was...subject to a DRM scheme that allowed full legitimate usage..." It isn't, and it isn't going to be. I want to be able to do everything with DRM protected content that I can do with a CD-ROM today: listen to it, copy it to my device, lend it to a friend, sell it on eBay when I get tired of it, donate it to a public library, and leave it to my children in my will. Until DRM does all of that, I want no part of it. I've never bought DRM protected media, and I don't plan to. [I do buy CD's and non-DRM tracks online.]